In 2011 and 2012, I wrote a series of blog articles about a wide variety of topics. Technology caught up with some of them, but they will provide pleasant reading to fellow system thinkers.
If I need to use software for a couple of minutes per month, I have to buy it. Or pay a monthly subscription that insults my intelligence. I want a different model.
May 2012
Some science fiction products need no futuristic technology and should be implemented immdiately. Like the “multipass” from “The Fifth Element”.
April 2012
Sometimes it is necessary to alter the perspective on a classic master. To bring focus to the magnificent details created centuries ago by a great man.
February 2012
We could take more control over the moment our life ends. Is death-planning an option?
December 2011
Every concert needs an audience to make the next program financially possible.
November 2011
Will it still be a candy-bar with a touch screen, or could it look entirely different? And strikingly familiar at the same time perhaps.
October 2011
I like to spend less, but I don’t like to compare and chance suppliers for everything every year. I’d rather have James do it for me.
September 2011
Maybe with a little modern technology the dog shit problem can be solved rather easily.
August 2011
Traffic jams are mostly the result of the behaviour of drivers. Time to sack the human drivers. Gently but fast.
Products are shipped all over the globe to make use of cheap labor. But why not produce the goods where they’re needed. Cheaply of course.
July 2011
In a democracy you rarely get what you want. You are ruled by compromise or parties you didn’t vote for. Time for a new democratic system.
June 2011
Managing passwords and accounts is cumbersome and a waste of time. There must be better solutions.
May 2011
Discretely owning a low profile country without any inhabitants could actually be a very profitable business.
When you drive six kids to school, the ePod will probably not be your vehicle of choice. But getting to the office could be so much more fun!
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The Dutch Residence has an awkward positioning of train stations. A new station in the right place can solve all public transport irritations in one single gesture.
April 2011